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In the Friday fiction slot on my blog I post about the novels I’m writing including novel extracts and occasional short stories
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The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in…
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The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in…
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I’m reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It’s almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and…
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I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I’ve a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish….
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The story has shifted to 1916. Maud and Iseult are living in Normandy, as the first world war wages and in Dublin, Irish freedom fighters have organized a botched insurrection. Many of their Irish friends and acquaintances were involved. This extract describes what happens when Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution for his part.
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This is a scene reimagining the execution of John MacBride, Maud Gonne’s husband, for his part in the 1916 Rising. His death was to change life for Maud and Iseult forever.
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It’s Friday Fiction here on the blog, so I’ll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here with weekly extracts in the Friday Fiction slot.
I’m thinking of opening Dancing With The Wind with one of Maud Gonne’s fiery political speeches.
Question: Would you read on if this was what you found in the first pages of a book?
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